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Galleryyuhself - Keron Rose continues to pave a fresh path in Trinidad and Tobago by answering crucial questions about our economic landscape.

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#Galleryyuhself~ Unit Trust strikes a sunny note.

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~Galleryyuhself~ Covid-19 has brought many businesses into the 21st century.

Calling all Entrepreneurs! Enhance your customer’s payment experience when you sign up for Republic Epay. In as little as 4 business days you’ll be able to send a payment link to your customers even if you don’t have a website. It’s that easy!

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The Pivot

~Galleryyuhself~ Today I take a look at one businessman doing his best with the ups and downs brought on all of us in the world because of covid-19.

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One businessman, two very different approaches to two restaurant concepts. Covid-19 has taught us all to pivot. After many successful years of being on the avenue of Woodbrook with Drink Lounge and Bistro and LOFTT Gallery, Dale Ramirez has two new ventures called Calabash Garden and Punch & Pie.

He has gone for one elegantly casual and one down home bakery based approach. The use of solid colours and type styles lead the way for both Caribbean pallets. 

He leads the way in fighting the good fight in a very difficult situation. He has also possibly single handedly shown us what can be done with a great vision and a never say die attitude. 

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~Galleryyuhself~ I saw this young lady on the show, Friday Lime with Dr. Keith Rowley and wanted to know more. Check out what she does. Also find out more here-:https://www.facebook.com/skedonline

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~Galleryyuhself~ This local version of Shark Tank has been on TV6 and is now repeating. Do give it another look.

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On this day in 1933, Metro Theatre which was opened in Port-of-Spain by industrialist Haji Nur Mohammed Gokool Meah, a former indentured labourer.

At the time, the cinema was the largest in the Caribbean.

Gokool (Meah, meaning benefector, was a Muslim honour given in honour of his charitable works) built the Metro at the corner of St Vincent and Park Streets, naming it after American film producer Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) with which he had forged an alliance to show only MGM films.

In 1938, however, he breached the contract by showing films from rival RKO and Paramount. MGM, therefore, withdrew and signed with George Rosenthal whose British Colonial Film Exchange owned other cinemas in the Caribbean.

After the split, Gokool renamed his cinema Globe Theatre, eventually operating a string of five cinemas in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando.

Gokool had a ready-made audience with a thirst for Indian films.

History researcher Angelo Bissessarsingh wrote that the "Bollywood" film, 'Bala Joban', "was the first to be shown in the language of the Indian subcontinent and though several other Indian-made films had been screened as early as the 1920s locally, these were all shot with English dialogue".

The appetite for such movies led to the establishment of cinemas in San Fernando, and Hummingbird in Debe.

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ABOUT HAJI GOKOOL MEAH

Haji Gokool Meah (1847–1939) was an industrialist and philanthropist. He was born in Kashmir, in what was then British India. He was originally named Modhoo. His father died shortly before his birth and his mother remarried.

As a child, he and his family left Kashmir and ended up in Calcutta where, in 1852, they signed up as indentured labourers bound for the sugar cane fields of Trinidad.

On January 25, 1853, they arrived in Trinidad aboard the Benares. They were indentured at the Concord Estate in Pointe-à-Pierre. After three months, his mother died of malaria and his stepfather took little interest in him. He was informally adopted by a Hindu couple who gave him the name Gokool.

Once he was old enough, Gokool secured his own indentureship contract with the Concord Estate. He renewed his contract once it expired, and then went out on his own. He purchased a donkey cart and made a living hauling sugar cane to the factory at Usine Sainte Madeline, then the second largest sugar refinery in the world.

After a few years of this trade, he sold his cart and established a shop in Danglade Village on the road to San Fernando (now part of the Petrotrin oil refinery at Pointe-à-Pierre).

He married Rojan Boodhoo, a Muslim, in 1878, and had 17 children, 11 of whom survived.

From shopkeeping, he moved on to cocoa cultivation, establishing one of the early cocoa plantations in the Diego Martin valley.

From cocoa, he moved on the real estate and become one of the major landlords in Port-of-Spain.

He also established himself as a cinema magnate, establishing the Metro cinema in collaboration with MGM. He later split with them and renamed his cinema the Globe Cinema, eventually operating a string of five cinemas in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando.

In 1922, he performed the Haj (Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca). In his will, he established the Haji Gokool Meah Trust, a trust to continue the charitable works which had earned him the title Meah (benefactor).

In 1923, he joined Kazi Syed Abdul Aziz, Haji Ruknuddin Meah and Abdul Ghany to set up the TIA, and was a generous donor to their projects.

When Gokool died, he left $1million in a trust fund to his son Noor to administer to the poor. Noor passed it on to an institution which established the Haji Gokool Meah Trust Fund in 1967 for the poor and needy, and education in general, then valued at $1.93 million.

A masjid in his honour is situated in St James.

(Source: http://www.caribbeanmuslims.com )

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~Galleryyuhself~ Nudge was started by Anya Ayoung-Chee, design strategist and social entrepreneur, and Julie Avey, Senior VP of People and Culture at the Massy Group. Drawn together by a mutual desire to grow interest in the Caribbean’s medium, small, and micro enterprises, they created Nudge.

Through Nudge, Anya and Julie hope to harness the power of bold entrepreneurs, makers, and creatives of all kinds — bringing their brilliant ideas to market.

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~Galleryyuhself~ On right now and an amazing initiative. For the first time ever, the Prime Minister is talking to young people in a real LIVE ‘lime” where entrepreneurs are speaking with him about their products and services, enjoyed music, having some food and talking off the cuff. 

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~Galleryyuhself~ Covid-19 has brought out the curbside entrepreneur. This business uses an attractive approach to a common image seen online lately. There is also the incentive of a free item, that’s always satisfying. To see fresh produce come to the fore as ‘food’ makes me emotional. Lol. Perhaps we can eventually have healthier citizens because of these initiatives.

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~Galleryyuhself~ An excellent blog from Entrepreneur Keron Rose. Do check out his site here -: http:// keronrose.com

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~Galleryyuhself~ The Minister of Trade Mrs Paula Gopee Scoon speaks with I95.5 about an Entrepreneur who has ventured out into exporting batteries to twelve countries.